धीमा

From Prakrit [script needed] (*dhīmma, “slow”), perhaps related to a family of Prakrit words meaning "lump" with an initial ढ् (ḍh), including Prakrit [script needed] (*ḍhīmma-, “lump”); the further origin of these words is unknown and perhaps borrowed from a substrate like Dravidian or Munda. Compare Punjabi ਧੀਮਾ (dhīmā) / دھِیما (dhīmā), Gujarati ધીમું (dhīmũ), Marathi धिमे (dhime), Bengali ঢিমা (ḍhima).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱiː.mɑː/, [d̪ʱiː.mäː]

धीमा • (dhīmā) (Urdu spelling دِھیمِا)

1. slow, sluggish, steady
2. gentle
3. lazy
4. quiet

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “धीमा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*dhīmma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press